Will extreme overclocking help Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX to defeat ATI Radeon HD 4800 and how greatly? Will an extremely overclocked GeForce 9800 GTX be able to complete against the new GeForce GTX 260? Answers to all these questions in our new article!

Futuremark 3DMark Vantage

We minimize the CPU’s influence by using the Extreme profile (1920x1200, 4x FSAA and anisotropic filtering).

Increasing the clock rate doesn’t help much in 3DMark Vantage. The modified GeForce 9800 GTX proves that the GeForce 8/9 architecture has passed its prime and should now be viewed as outdated. The best it can do is to close the gap to the Radeon HD 4850. There is no talking about competition with the Radeon HD 4870.

The individual tests agree with the overall scores except that the modified GeForce 9800 GTX overtakes the Radeon HD 4850 in the second test. That’s not the result you would expect from a graphics card working at an increased GPU voltage, producing a lot of noise, and consuming as much power as the GeForce 9800 GX2!